In any case, War and Peace is there. The great books are often really deserving of their reputation, but I'm curious if anyone here has read it and really enjoyed it rather than read it for the pride of saying "I read it." Is it a slog? Will I find myself flipping through boring bits? Or will what some people call boring bits turn out to be wonderful prose that's worth the examination?

I'm trying to read it as one of my should-reads for the year. I like it, it's just really, really long. I find the war bits harder to digest, but for other people that's what they like. I actually listened to the first 2 parts on my 8-hour drive from Pasadena on Saturday, so I could pick it up again where I left off for another try.

IObookN, The Invisible Bridge is great so far. I highly recommend it.

So rather than wait for the library, I took advantage of Amazon's deals and bought the Hunger Games trilogy in hardcover JUST SO I COULD READ IT. And then I will give it to my friend for Christmas so she can read it and I can buy the books in paperback later. Hardback is pretty, but paperback is more portable and cheaper. Although these were just as cheap as the paperbacks. Still. I don't know. I like paperbacks.

Tonight, I begin!

woo! i look forward to hearing your thoughts!

P-C, be careful, you might not get any sleep tonight. I couldn't put them down once I started them.

I'm glad I didn't have them all at once because yeah. At least it wouldn't be as bad as the couple days I lost to Twilight. Last time I checked I was up to 6 in the holds queue for Mockingjay.

I've forced myself to take a break between books 2 and 3 ... besides, I decided Mockingjay wasn't something I wanted to read over Thanksgiving.

Oh! So I was complaining about the Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Next the other day (in Natter, I guess), and the good news is, 100+ pages in, stuff finally started happening. But not before several different history lessons!

So I was complaining about the Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Next the other day (in Natter, I guess), and the good news is, 100+ pages in, stuff finally started happening. But not before several different history lessons!

Man, did he ever need an editor with a firmer hand. So much extra blah blah blah in those books.

Man, did he ever need an editor with a firmer hand.

He was dead before they were published so he wasn't really there to work on edits. I think they just took a flier and decided to run them as is.

Though he was very stubborn, and a long time established journalist so he might've resisted changes anyway.

Though he was very stubborn, and a long time established journalist so he might've resisted changes anyway.

Yeah, I think this would probably have been the case.